Light Green Color Tribal Large Scale Antique 19th Century Persian Ziegler Sultanabad Carpet

This nineteenth-century Persian Sultanabad carpet, distinguished by its rare light green field and expansive tribal motifs, is a quintessential artifact of the "Ziegler" era—a transformative period in textile history that redefined the Persian weaving industry for the Western world. In the late 1800s, the Manchester-based firm Ziegler & Co. established a dedicated workshop in the Sultanabad district (modern-day Arak) to produce antique rugs that married traditional Persian craftsmanship with the burgeoning aesthetic demands of Victorian and Edwardian Europe. By enlarging the scale of the motifs and employing a more restrained, "earth-toned" palette, the Ziegler weavers created a new design dialect that moved away from the dense, dark-toned patterns of the past, resulting in a more spacious and architecturally versatile floor covering.